I can’t say I’m massively familiar with Paul F. Tompkins work, other than knowing him from BoJack Horseman, but I am aware that he is well loved by people who like the same kind of things I like, and we’re looking for a comedy show while in New York, so why not! This promises to be a good old fasioned variety show, and by god it is. There’s a live band! A guest singer in Medusa, who’s got a hell of a voice. A guest magician in Artoun Nazareth, who is perfectly enjoyable even if I’ve seen all the tricks before, with a lot of the same patter. But obviously the main event is Tompkins himself, with some fun opening stand up (including telling the needlessly overenthusiastic American audience to stop applauding people and buildings who aren’t here) and later on a timely character act of an Irish priest campaigning for an Irish pope. It ends, bizarrely, with a rendition of (Ya Got) Trouble from The Music Man, complete with Tompkins in straw boater. It’s a song maybe best known to my generation as the inspiration for the Monorail song from The Simpsons, and it’s impressively earworm-y as a result. All in all, we got the variety we demanded, and that’s that.